DBMS > Kingbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. SWC-DB vs. Typesense vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. SWC-DB vs. Typesense vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#209	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

typesense.org

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

typesense.org/docs

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Alex Kashirin

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1999

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2020

2015

1999

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

10 R1, October 2018

0.5, April 2021

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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